Sacred Mother Tongue have been bubbling under the UK metal scene’s wider radar for a couple of years now, but haven’t quite broken through just yet. They signed to EMI back in May though, so perhaps with a bit of major label muscle behind them, the band’s as-yet-untitled second album might be the album that gives them the push they need.

It’s through EMI that the band are releasing their A Light Shines… EP in September. Ostensibly that’s why they’re playing this show – to showcase some of their new songs. Check out the flyer below for the details:

The only real taste of this new material we’ve had from SMT so far is via the lyric-video (which are now very much a thing, aren’t they?) for ‘Seven’. It’s also got some girl-on-girl axe murder, which is, y’know, given the subject matter is probably something we should’ve described without using a sexually-loaded turn of phrase like “girl-on-girl”. Oh well: